Sam Tornado

@SamTornado
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Daemon the Rogue Prince #Cats
@erosalie there's no hate like "Christian Love"
What is it with cats and boxes?
(Foster kittens, who will be up for adoption soon)
@recursive
Oh! Very cool, Thanks!
We figured it was a "wisecrack" πŸ˜‰.
But than @unlimitedbacon and I got to talk about, "how would Ben Franklin Build a laser"πŸ€” πŸ˜‚
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@unlimitedbacon @thp
We had enough trouble getting Gcode to fit on a floppy... Maybe one day we'll spring for a 20MB hard drive πŸ˜…
@vince @unlimitedbacon
Yes, that's what we ultimately ended up using, but our Kaypro didn't come with a Kermit disk.
So we had to type-in a much simpler program (PCGet I think) in assembly, which we used to upload Kermit and save it to a floppy disk.

Made these as Christmas presents for a couple of friends. It's a fridge magnet that displays when upcoming rocket launches are happening. Uses the #Adafruit MagTag board, which has an E Ink screen and is powered by an #ESP32.

https://github.com/unlimitedbacon/space-magtag

#space #spacex

GitHub - unlimitedbacon/space-magtag: A fridge magnet which shows upcoming rocket launches

A fridge magnet which shows upcoming rocket launches - GitHub - unlimitedbacon/space-magtag: A fridge magnet which shows upcoming rocket launches

GitHub

A modern 3D printer being controlled by an ancient KayPro II. It's printing a G-Code file saved on the floppy disk!

@SamTornado and I did an incredible amount of work to get this going. It's connected to the printer via the serial. We also had to figure out how to connect the KayPro to a PC to copy the G-Code over.

Also wrote a custom program in Z80 assembly to stream the file to the printer.

All this to prove that we could have had home 3D printers in the 80s!

#3dprinting #retrocomputing

@eff oh yeah